Tom Morris

20 March 2010

A pungent mix of programming, philosophy, pedanticism, procrastination, perplexity, peripheral political polemic, and platters of preposterousness.

I’ve just released sbt-growltest, a teeny Ruby script that does Growl notification (on the Mac - on Linux, I’d suggest doing something similar with pynotify) for your Specs test with sbt. It is to replicate the autotest/growl functionality from ZenTest in Ruby.

My site has been down all day today. It has just come back up. I have absolutely no idea what that was all about. Needless to say, I won’t be getting straight on to it.

Dave Beckett has a video up about using Redland from the command line.

I use Git, but if I wanted to learn how to use Mercurial, there is no better place to do it than Joel Spolsky’s HgInit. But, as I said, I use Git. Constant reinvention is for pop stars, while the nerd just git rebases himself.

Scala hackers may be interested in reading The Geek Talk interview with Debasish Ghosh (GitHub profile). Debasish is behind scouchdb, the Scala interface to CouchDB, and sjson.

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